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AlphaCentauri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-07-09 11:10 AM
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UK young lack awareness on HIV
Source: BBC

Those aged 16 to 24 account for 10% of all new diagnoses in the UK and young men who have sex with men are most at risk, a report said.

More strategies to encourage young people to practise safe sex and have better access to sexual health clinics are needed, it concluded.

The UK has the highest number of new HIV infections in Western Europe - more than 7,700 in 2007.
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Lisa Power, head of policy at the Terrence Higgins Trust, said young people knew less about HIV now than they used to and a lack of sex and relationships education in schools was partly to blame, although there are now plans to add it into the curriculum.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8037715.stm
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Blue_Tires Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-07-09 11:11 AM
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1. how do people actually know LESS about HIV
while knowing MORE and MORE about sex at earlier ages??
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-07-09 11:14 AM
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2. Ambient environment. In a word:
Edited on Thu May-07-09 11:15 AM by Deja Q
The media.


Okay, that's technically two words...

I am not surprised.

Look at typical television shows. They don't incite awareness. They show people getting it on. And children will pick up all sorts of things in their ambient environment.


Not to mention peer pressure; most 16 year old boys would rather talk about doing sex than using condoms, diseases, et cetera...

Just a guess...
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AlphaCentauri Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Thu May-07-09 09:17 PM
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3. That's the message on TV
there is no prevention message, just do it.

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